camo86T Silver Donating Members 1,810 Member For: 10y 10m 9d Gender: Male Location: SW Sydney Posted 27/03/19 03:59 AM Share Posted 27/03/19 03:59 AM Thought I may as well get a start at a new thread for the 'new' ute... My little brother sends me links to random cars on gumtree and carsales semi-regularly, a few weeks back he sent one that made me look twice; built atomic motor, built auto, g2 gtx3582, wavetrac, tailshaft etc I always thought if I get another barra it would have to have a built motor and auto box, and would prefer a ute again...so all boxes ticked, nitro blue same as the old bitch. Bit of digging and found out the seller was a 3rd mate twice removed in family terms lol The usual back and forth, decided to go ahead. Picked it up a couple of weeks back, haven't taken any photos apart from these To be continued... 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D4N Donating Members 35 Member For: 6y 3m 19d Posted 27/03/19 05:42 AM Share Posted 27/03/19 05:42 AM Very tidy. Nice pair! Congratulations 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
k31th less WHY; more WOT Site Developer 29,043 Member For: 16y 8m 11d Gender: Male Location: Melbourne Posted 27/03/19 05:50 AM Share Posted 27/03/19 05:50 AM should do some good skids, eh, camo 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
camo86T Silver Donating Members 1,810 Member For: 10y 10m 9d Gender: Male Location: SW Sydney Posted 27/03/19 06:57 AM Author Share Posted 27/03/19 06:57 AM 33 minutes ago, k31th said: it better do some good skids, eh, camo FTFY No doubt it can, not at the moment though Needs some 'things' sorted.... all that glitters is not gold and all that It's had somewhat of a whore's existence ie. lots of coin thrown at it and gone through a number of sets of hands lol In list form: First owner did nothing to it but kept every single receipt every the look of it Next guy spent money on the usual mods plus a wavetrac Some issues with tuner more money spent At some point motor was popped Motor replaced with what's allegedly an Atomic motor, trying to trace details but difficult as block numbers apparently aren't how they're recorded. Exactly when and who is extremely hazy; only telltale signs at this point are Atomic balancer on the front and the fact it swallows a sh*tload of boost without blinking New tuner At some point standard auto lets go Customer throws up his hands and sells Tuner employee buys Fits gtx and other bits, auto is allegedly built around this time WWIII between tuner and employee, they part company (not sure of exact order here) Employee swaps for Evo to tyre/wheel company who uses it for advertising Wheel guy sells to last owner, young guy who had it for around 6 months as a weekend tyre blazer I suspect Sells it to this sucker lol I may have missed out an owner or two, can't be sure. Last owner helpfully fitted new plugs and coils...genuine coils so all good there, but 0.9 plugs...and it allegedly wants 28psi on current e85 tune lol This creates issues as you can imagine. So. "Other things"; No records of auto build, but no flaring, had been handling the power fine and 'feels' good but to be fair I'm clueless about autos Suspect it may have some sort of stall convertor as down low when you start to gently ease the power on, there's some light resistance in the box at first, then it feels a bit like riding the clutch would be in a manual before grabbing and hooking hard when you give it to it. Front breather has been carefully welded up........ "know what this is Dylan?" "Nah boss" "It's surplus to requirements, son. Make the TIG ready!" Rear breather has a nice AN fitting welded into the rocker cover, then braided hose...about 300mm long, then just an open end lol 4" dump, no cat and single 3.5" with 2 reasonators (no mufflers) means it's the loudest droniest exhaust in the barrasphere....funny how soon you sort of get used to it though. More details to come 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
k31th less WHY; more WOT Site Developer 29,043 Member For: 16y 8m 11d Gender: Male Location: Melbourne Posted 27/03/19 07:03 AM Share Posted 27/03/19 07:03 AM haha solid back-story hopefully it's as good as the description is... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bossmang FREAKY Donating Members 12,432 Member For: 14y 11m 25d Gender: Male Location: Melbourne Posted 27/03/19 07:42 AM Share Posted 27/03/19 07:42 AM god daym if that's not one to steer clear of I dont know what is 😕 she gets around 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
camo86T Silver Donating Members 1,810 Member For: 10y 10m 9d Gender: Male Location: SW Sydney Posted 27/03/19 07:52 AM Author Share Posted 27/03/19 07:52 AM Lol dont be such a pussy freaky Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bossmang FREAKY Donating Members 12,432 Member For: 14y 11m 25d Gender: Male Location: Melbourne Posted 27/03/19 08:00 AM Share Posted 27/03/19 08:00 AM lol my ute has 48 00 kays, im second owner since near new. only tuned by niz. that's it. as new 30k you buy now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MBAF Bronze Donating Members 2,156 Member For: 8y 4m 6d Posted 27/03/19 08:49 AM Share Posted 27/03/19 08:49 AM 1 hour ago, Admin (as if) said: god daym if that's not one to steer clear of I dont know what is 😕 she gets around yep I would of 100% said no to that sale unless there was some hard evidence it actually had said mods. Ive been looking recently and I love the old "built this, built that" list and the extra 10k on the price, but when you ask, nah no receipts or anything.. jog on pelican hopefully though you got something as promised camo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JETURBO ...JD TUNING ADELAIDE... Gold Donating Members 23,708 Member For: 16y 6m 20d Gender: Male Location: Adelaide Posted 27/03/19 08:59 AM Share Posted 27/03/19 08:59 AM (edited) Looks slow 🤩 Edited 27/03/19 09:00 AM by JETURBO 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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